Wringer guard



Jan. 6, 1942. D, C, ovos-r I 2,269,063

WRINGER GUARD Filed Jan. 29, 1940 V. Z/ I 24 Q 22 v Inventor "'L/bgyfc/w sr Patented Jan. 6, 1942 WRINGER GUARD Dwight C. Provost, Nassau, N. Y., assignor of onehalf to Harold '1. Provost, Sloansville, N. Y.

Application January 29, 1940, Serial No. 316,233

2 Claims.

The present invention relates to clothes wringers and has for its primary object to provide a guard for the upper roller of the wringer whereby to prevent the clothes from sticking to the roller during the operation thereof.

A further object is to provide a device of this character of simple and practical construction, which may be easily and quickly installed in operative position on the wringer without necessitating any changes in the construction thereof, which at the same time is efiicienit in performance, relatively inexpensive to manufacture and otherwise well adapted for the purposes for which the same is intended.

Other objects and advantages reside in the details of construction as more fully hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part hereof, wherein like numerals refer to like parts throughout and in which:

Figure 1 is a front elevational View of a wringer showing the guard mounted in position thereon.

I Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view taken substantially on a line 2-2 of Fig. 1 and Figure 3 is a perspective View of one of the brackets for supporting the ends of the guard.

Figure 4 is an end elevational view of a modified form of bracket, with parts shown in section, and

Figure 5 is a side elevational view thereof.

Referring now to the drawing in detail the numeral 5 designates the clothes wringer of conventional construction which includes thelower roller 6 and upper roller 1 journaled in the end frame members 8 of the wringer.

A bracket designated generally at 9 is mounted at each end of the upper roller and includes a plate in of sheet metal having a central opening II for receiving the end of the shaft of the roller, the upper end of the plate: being bent at right angles inwardly for bridging the top of the roller and spaced therefrom, as clearly shown in Fig. 2 of the drawing, the bridging member being designated at [2 and is provided with downturned hangers I3 at each end thereof and 'terminating adjacent the opposite sides of the roller. The lower portion of the hangers are provided with an opening l4 through which screws I5 are inserted for attaching longitudinal guard blades l6 at the opposite sides of the roller. The guard blades extend longitudinally of the roller and are constructed of an elongated relatively thin strip of metal substantially concaved as shown at I! on their inner faces to conform slightly ito the contour of the roller and the lower edge of the blade is beveled as shown at l8 to provide a substantially sharpened scraping edge which is positioned in contact with the surface of the roller.

From the foregoing it will be apparent that the bracket 9 is held in position between the frame 8 to prevent rotation thereof during the rotation of the shaft of the roller and at the same time .the scraper blades [6 will engage the surface of the roller to prevent the clothes from sticking thereto during the operation of the wringer.

, In the modified form of the invention illustrated in Figures 4 and 5, the bracket I9 is provided with the bridge piece 20 from the side edges of which the hangers 2| depend for attaching the scraper blades 22 thereto. This form of the invention is designed for wringers in which the rollers arewider than the frame, shown at the dotted lines 23 and the bridge piece 2|] is also provided with downturned cars 24 engaging the inside of :the frame to prevent rotation of the bracket.

It is believed the details of construction and operation of the device will be readily understood from the foregoing without further detailed explanation.

What is claimed is:

1. An attachment for clothes wringers com-' prising a pair of brackets, each of said brackets including a plate member positioned at each end of one of the rollers of the wringer, said plate member having an opening therein for freely receiving the shaft of the roller, one edge of the bracket being bent angularly to form a crosspla'te extending transversely above the roller, a pair of spaced parallel hangers bent downwardly at the ends of the crossplate and positioned at opposite sides of the roller and a pair of scraper blades having their end portions attached to the hangers of the respective brackets with an edge of each of the blades in contacting engagement with the surface of the roller, said blades having their inner faces concaved longitudinally and said hangers being positioned in abutting engagement with the two opposed walls of an upstanding channeled frame of the wringer.

2. An attachment for wringers of a type having upstanding spaced side frame members provided with a vertical channel at the inner side of the frame members and within which the ends of the wringer. rollers are journalled, said attachment comprising a pair of brackets including a plate positioned in the channel of the frame and having an opening freely receiving an adjacent end of one of the rollers, an integral inturned flange on the upper edge of each plate positioned transversely above the roller, integral downturned wings at the ends of the flange and DWIGHT C. PROVOST. 

